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If there were a Zodiac calendar for gaming, this would undoubtedly be the year of the motion controller. With both Project Natal on the Xbox 360 releasing this holiday and Nintendo’s near monopolistic share of the motion controller market, Sony’s got a few challenges if it plans to carve a place for itself amongst all the competition.

Today in a special pre-PAX East event Sony let hundreds of Playstation fans get their hands on the Playstation Move and a few of it’s launch window titles for the first time. The tiny space was flooded with ravenous gamers looking to give Sliders, Move Party, and Sports Champions a try. It was a tough, elbow-bumping battle but GeneralGames.ca was on-scene to get a hands-on with the Playstation Move.

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Gaming is full of pilgrimages; from The Oregon Trail to ChuChu Rocket! there are plenty of video games that center around the theme of travel. In essence really, a large majority of games can be reduced to a commentary on the protagonist’s quest for a promise land. This week I’ll be that protagonist as I saddle up and head down to the southern province of America to join PAX East 2010 in Boston Massachusetts.

Keep an eye on the site over the next few days as I’ll be posting tons of interviews and previews from all the major publishers attending the convention. Also, keep tuned to Xbox.ca/Community as I’ll be sending some exclusive articles their way too. It’s going to be a wild ride, I’ve already got plenty of appointments booked but if you have any requests or suggestions on what to check out feel free to leave comments below. Wish me luck!

Saturday November 14th game fans from all across Southern Ontario descended upon the Strathcona Hotel in downtown Toronto to help celebrate the holidays with GeneralGames.ca by raising money for Child’s Play while having a great time. The event was a casual affair with drinks, food, a live chiptunes concert and of course games.

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Live in Toronto or Montreal? Like really fast cars? Well, Microsoft is bringing the much anticipated Forza Motorsport 3 to your city for a special public preview event that will give gamers some early hands-on time with the title’s 100 tracks and over 400 cars. Canadians will be the first to get their hands on it before it launches and have a chance to win the Ultimate Drive Your Dreams Experience consisting of an Xbox 360 Elite Console, an Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel, a Limited Edition Forza Motorsport game, and a 12-Month Xbox LIVE Gold Membership. If that weren’t enough the winner also gets a full day behind the wheel at Bridgestone Racing Academy.

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We at GeneralGames.ca, have been quite active in the Xbox Canada community for a long while and it has really been getting stronger with each year so we thought it would be a great idea to organize a community social. Saturday, November 14th come out to the Strathcona Hotel Bar in downtown Toronto and join us for food and drink. You can meet fellow community members face to face and see where all that trash-talk is coming from. We look forward to seeing you there and there may be some surprises in store. Please RSVP in the comments section and feel free to ask any questions.

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Thanks again to all that entered our X’09 Canada contest, but the lucky amongst you must rise to the surface like dumplings in a boiling pot. DaCanadian is our ‘Splosion Man winner and Aznboi90 has earned himself a Shadow Complex code. You two should keep an eye on your inbox, codes are inbound. The rest of you, check back frequently; we have contests going on all the time so there will be plenty more chances to win. Thanks to Jakenbear and JadeLIVE for the codes and the opportunity to meet so many community folk at X’09 this year.

This past Tuesday, Sony invited GeneralGames.ca to come to the Playstation Holiday Preview event in downtown Toronto to check out all the big games coming out this holiday season on the Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable. A lot of major publishers showed up to show off their titles and we got a lot of really great first-hand experience with a lot of the games you’re dying to hear more about.

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